With this substantial encouragement and a payment to Menelik of 3 million lire, Italy obtained by the Italo-Ethiopian treaty of May 1908 a frontier running from Dolo on the Juba northwards to the Shebelle where it joined the line agreed to previously. A perfunctory and rather nominal attempt was made to allocate different clans along the boundary to either Ethiopian or Italian control, with little regard for the grazing and watering needs of the people concerned who, of course, were never consulted. The Rahanweyn, for instance, were allocated to the Italian sphere, while the Digodia, Ogaden and others 'north of the frontier line' were to be dependent upon Ethiopia.

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 256